Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…The overarching premise for this article is to explore the extent to which Henning Mankell's crime novels and their adaptations engage the character Wallander's own and “other” worlds with a cosmopolitan perspective, by considering the mutations of Wallander's fictional local world as intricately tied to discursive geopolitical realities of the post–Cold War world. More specifically, I consider what may be gained from exploring the Wallander series within two distinct – yet, I shall argue, related – perspectives on geopolitics and crime fiction: on the one hand, the geopolitics of the translation, adaptation, and reception networks that have “worlded” the Wallander series (what I call Wallander's geopolitical adaptation networks), and on the other, the fictional geopolitical networks that weave the Global North and the Global South together in several of Mankell's intricate crime plots (Wallander's dark geopolitics).…”
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De la sécularisation comme dialectique de la préservation et du dépassement : rupture et résurgence chez William Hale-White (« Mark Rutherford ») by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…On the other hand, the second one tends to understand the development of ideas as well as of psychological and social realities by reducing them to more essential continuities. …”
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Zofia Szczupaczyńska wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. Uwagi na marginesie lektury cyklu „krakowskich kryminałów” Maryli Szymiczkowej [właśc. Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński] by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…The tension that arises between artistic creation and historically attested in­formation makes us look at the protagonist of the story as a person functioning in two mutually complementary — but also conflicting — social and moral realities. As a ‘citizen of two worlds,’ Szczupaczyńska remains torn between bourgeois traditionalism and the challenges of the new age.…”
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Russian consumer lending market in modern conditions by I. A. Rizvanova

“…It reviews the crisis periods of the Russian financial market from 2014 to 2023 and the anti-crisis measures of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the domestic consumer credit market in the current realities, and loans restructuring to individuals under sanctions pressure. …”
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Introduction: Indentured bodies/embodiments of indenture by Sinah Theres Kloß, Jennifer Leetsch

“…Recruitment processes, along with the harrowing conditions of transport and labour, radically reshaped the material and physical realities of indentured labourers, influencing not only their immediate bodily experiences but also the socio-cultural practices and embodied memories they would pass down to future generations. …”
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Mistaken Worlds: When “Abundance” and “Scarcity” Collide in the Colombian Amazon by Gerard Verschoor, Camilo Torres

“…Employing a perspective that rejects cultural uniqueness, this study examines the multiplicity of practices and realities in which the different actors confront dilemmas around the use of common pool resources. …”
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Dissociation: understanding the dynamics of primary and secondary capacities by Veronica Mateescu

“…Dissociation initially acts as a protective mechanism, allowing temporary detachment from overwhelming emotional realities. However, it can become maladaptive, disrupting the balance between primary capacities (e.g., love, trust, and hope) and secondary capacities (e.g., punctuality, honesty, and achievement). …”
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La femme d’origine maghrébine en immigration. Dynamiques identitaires, genre et personnalisation by Abdelhak Qribi

“…The approach of North African women’s realities in France through the prism of "gender" in the capacity of a constructivist perspective, as well as its inclusion within socialization and personalization issues, seems to be an effective way for understanding identity dynamics. …”
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Development of the Ambulance 3.0 platform application by A. Z. Barybina

“…The author of the article points out that current realities make it especially important to create such application because while relevant Russian studies do not pay proper attention to emergency medical services issues, the use of foreign counterparts is not possible for various reasons, including that of the large amount of confidential data that require processing. …”
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Des nourrissons en danger : les représentations de la relation mère-enfant dans la revue suisse Pro Juventute des années 1920 aux années 1970 by Bettina Grubenmann, Michel Christian

“…On the other hand, the journal made the effort to take into account other realities contradicting its own norms such as mothers’ paid work and child-care in day nurseries and infant homes. …”
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Aspirations professionnelles de jeunes bacheliers au Cameroun : l’influence de la pratique de l’orientation scolaire revisitée by Dong Nguetsop Frosine Merveille, Innocent Fozing

“…Initiation to self-awareness contributes in developing in students more realistic professional aspirations rather than oblique, or utopian than undefined. Information on the realities of the job market and the world of employment contributes to developing in students more realistic professional aspirations rather than oblique, or utopian than undefined. …”
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Less Stringent Global Health Treaties: Insights from Various Regimes by Rafsi Azzam Hibatullah Albar

“…Lastly, the research proposed four main ideas that make up the ideal party: cognizance of pre-existing realities, allowance for differentiated commitment levels, careful linguistic choices, and the inclusion of a minimal yet effective enforcement mechanism.…”
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ASSIMILATIVE GLOCALISM: DISSECTING POWER ASYMMETRIES THROUGH “THE HANDBOOK OF CULTURE AND GLOCALIZATION” by Pelekeh H. Tapang

“…By examining theoretical gaps, conceptual ambiguities, and uneven engagements with global-local dynamics, this research uncovers a need for a more incisive framework to address the realities of power within globalization. To bridge this gap, the study introduces “assimilative glocalism”, a theoretical model designed to illuminate the strategic incorporation and subtle subordination of local elements within global structures. …”
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Madagascar au XXIe siècle : la politique de sa géographie by Hervé Rakoto Ramiarantsoa

“…Through a reflection on the different policies set up for agriculture and environment, two central issues in the development of a rural country, the paper analyses the tensions resulting from interferences at different levels (local realities, national decisions, supra national injunctions) with which the notions of development and environment are connected. …”
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Landscapes of care in Mexico City: Experiences, mobility, and infrastructures by Paula Soto-Villagrán

“…In this sense, investigating landscapes of care entails making visible realities that otherwise go unnoticed, as these landscapes are present in daily journeys – principally of women – through the city, though other inhabitants may not be aware of them or observe them directly.…”
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Flourishing of Occidentalism in Iran After Cultural Revolution by Shalaleh ZABARDAST

“…Western Christianity adjusted to modernity to justify the developments while Islam accepted it only to the extent of its capacity to authenticate the realities stated by the Qur’an. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Islamism play impressive role in a variety of contexts today. …”
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Pour une définition de la notion de minorité linguistique : les difficultés du vague by Christian Bassac, Joan Busquets, Victor Guset, Antoine Pascaud, Alain Viaut

“…In spite of the vagueness of the term, this classification also provides an explanatory account of why the equivalent of the term in other languages may recover different realities (for instance, minoranza linguistica in Italian).…”
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Guide méthodologique pour l'analyse spatiale du covid-19 dans les zones urbaines non métropolitaines du Brésil by João Pedro Pereira Caetano de Lima, Raul Borges Guimarães

“…To this end, it briefly discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and pertinent questions for making COVID-19 maps in different urban realities. It then presents different mapping techniques and how they can be implemented, especially in medium-sized cities. …”
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Needs Assessment in Intervention Programs for Rural Development by A.J. Adegbola, O.M. Olatilewa, S. Akor, O. Obarein

“…It alluded to the fact that needs assessments have impacted positively to the success of most agricultural development cum rural development projects, but advocated for it to be complemented with other relevant project management processes in light of present realities. The authors suggest that governments, project sponsors, development partners, and other relevant bodies make it obligatory for implementing agencies to conduct credible, verifiable, and inclusive needs assessment before releasing funds for Projects and intervention purposes. …”
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A Christian spirituality of imperfection: Towards a pastoral theology of descent within the praxis of orthopathy by D.J. Louw

“…In a theology of descent, the following question emerges: How does the pastoral ministry address the painful realities of failure and existential imperfection as related to the limitations of suffering human beings? …”
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